Boot and shoe cleaner



0. A. BILLINGTON.

' BOOT AND SHOE CLEANER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 6. 1915.

1,195,648. Patented Aug. 22,1916.

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BOOT AND srron CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patent-en Augx22, isie.

Application filed January 6, 1915. Serial No. 844.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID A. BILLINGTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ravenna, in the county of Portage and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boot'and Shoe Cleaners, of which the following is a specification. s

This invention relates to boot and shoe cleaners, and has for its object to provide a device incorporating therein a brushing element for cleaning the shoes anda scraping element, the said elements being so positioned relative to each other that the scraper and brushing element can engage a shoe or boot simultaneously and thus with one movement of a shoe or boot, the same can be scraped and brushed.

Another object of this invention is to provide a device as above set forth, the scraping element thereof carrying a series of bearing hooks at the ends thereof, and rotatable in said bearings are improved carrying elements having means thereon for engagement with resilient means whereby the brushes carried thereby will be resiliently held in a desired position.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a device of the kind above described, that is simple in construction, eflicient in operation, consists of the minimum number of parts and therefore can be manufactured for the minimum amount.

With these and other objects in view, this invention consists of certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangement "of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of thisimproved brush and scraper. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of the device. Fig. 3 is a.

top plan view of the device. Fig. 4 is a detailed, perspective view of one of the brush carrying elements.

Referring to the device by reference numerals, this device comprises a base 10 having a standard 11 formed integrally therebrackets is designated generally, by the numeral 15, the same comprising a portion 16 being circular in cross section, and at one end of the portion 16 is an offset bracket 17,

and at the opposite end of the same from that of the formation of the bracket 17 is a hoop 18. As is clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the portions 16 of the bracket 15 are positioned in-the opposed bearing hooks 14: formed at the ends of the body 12 of the device and the hooks 18 thereof are p0- sitioned lowermost and the offset brackets 17 are positioned uppermost, and brushes 18' are secured thereto by means 19 passing through the openings formed in the bracket portions 17 for that purpose. As will be seen in Fig. 1, the brushes 18 are so supported that they are in close proximity with the scraping edge 13 of the body portion 12. A coil spring 20 has its ends thereof attached to the hooks 18, and inasmuch as these hooks 18 extend at an angle from the ofiset bracket 17, the spring 20 being of the contractible type will normally hold the brushes 18 with one end of the bristles of the same into engagement; therefore providing a substantially V-shaped space for the reception of the boot or shoe.

There has thus been provided an improved boot or shoe cleaningand scraping device. and inasmuch as the sharpened edge 13 of the body 12 is in close proximity with the brushes 18, a boot or shoe can be inserted in the 'V-shaped space between the brushes 18, the sole of the shoe so placed can be scraped with the same movement of the said boot or shoe that the same is cleaned by engagement of the same with the brushes 18.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made injthe form and construction of this invention without departing from the material parts thereof. It is therefore not wished to: confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is wished to include all such as properly come within the scope claimed.

What is claimed is 1. In a boot and shoe cleaner, a support, a scraper carried by said support, a plurality of opposed bearing hooks at the ends of said scraper, a pair of brackets, each having a portion rotatable in said bearing hooks, an offset portion at one end thereof, a pair of brushes secured to said offset portions of said brackets hooks at the opposite ends of said. brackets from that of the formation of said ofi'set portions and a coil 7 spring in engagement With said hooks for normally urging said brushes carried by said offset portions of said brackets to a position so that a substantially V-shaped space is made between the same, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a boot and shoe cleaner, a scraper, a pair of brackets rotatably carried by said scraper, each of said brackets having an off-set portion at one end thereof, a pair of brushessecured to said oif-set portions, hooks sition adapted to receive a boot or shoe" therebetween.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of a Witness.

DAVID A. BILLINGTON. 7 Witness: ANGELO M. COATES.'

7 Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. i 

